E mail

• Last modified: tor okt 17, 2019 12:07
• Sign: JN
• Tested on: Xubuntu 18.04
• Solved: Yes

The e-mail system on NRM assumes that all personel are using MS Outlook (hence using MS Exchange protocols to handle e-mail and calendars). Furthermore, the IMAP protocol was (is?) forbidden by NRM-IT due to "security reasons".

It is still possible to use other e-mail clients, and IMAP, but some steps are necessary to get going.

One alternative to configuring your local e-mail client is to always use Webmail in a web browser. The URL to the NRM webmail is https://mail.nrm.se/owa. Note that you specifically need to ask for the secure http protocol (https://) due to an incomplete configuration of the web server at NRM-IT.

Setup IMAP with Thunderbird

This is one viable solution which uses a local gateway server (davmail) in order to remap the MS Exchange ports to the ports used by IMAP. You can then connect with any e-mail client - indirectly via the gateway server - to the NRM Exchange server.

Download and install:

• Debian Linux (Ubuntu):
  • Download debian package davmail_version-1_all.deb
  • and follow instructions at DavMail Setup on linux
• Other:
  • Download platform independent package davmail-version.zip
  • and follow instructions at DavMail Setup on linux

Configuration of davmail (in the davmail GUI):

Under Settings..., in the Main tab, these are the settings I (JN) use at the moment:

- Exchange protocol: Auto
- OWA (Exchange) URL: https://mail.nrm.se/owa
- Local POP port: 1110
- Local IMAP port: 1143
- Local SMTP port: 1025
- Caldav HTTP port: 1080
- Local LDAP port: 1389

Configuration of Thunderbird:

• Server Settings
  • Server Type: IMAP Mail Server
  • Server Name: localhost
  • Port: 1143